Professor Alice Sullivan is a social scientist.

She has written about whether the UK census should continue to collect accurate information on people& #39;s sex.

In 2020 you have to be brave to write about this. https://twitter.com/SianGriffiths6/status/1264370472482942978">https://twitter.com/SianGriff...
Alice highlights the post-modern fallacies about sex that are undermining the basic business of collecting sex disaggregated statistics
Last year she coordinated a letter from 80 quantitative social scientists to the @ONS to ask them to keep collecting accurate sex data.

The signatories had to be brave to do it.

https://www.parliament.scot/General%20Documents/CTEEA_2019.12.18_Sullivan.pdf">https://www.parliament.scot/General%2...
One who wouldnt said “W a v heavy heart I have chosen to swallow my integrity on this particular issue & keep my head down. I dont like doing this, I dont like how it feels. I dont like the implications of my inaction for social
justice in general or gender issues in particular.”
The CEO of The National Centre for Social Research
@NatCen wrote to staff and recommended they not sign the letter for fear of causing offence. https://twitter.com/johnarmstrong5/status/1264487744677588992">https://twitter.com/johnarmst...
Alice was invited to speak at a research methods seminar on sex and gender issues by @NatCen, but other panelist(s) threatened to pull and a staff group said she had “anti-trans views” (they gave no evidence)

The event was cancelled rather than allow @ProfAliceS to speak.
People who advocate the importance of sex as a category are now commonly accused of transphobia, regardless of their commitment human rights of trans people.

This is bad for evidence-based policy making, in general, and in particular in relation to women and girls
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